Much of Hezbollah’s terror infrastructure consists of a vast network of underground tunnels, where for decades Hezbollah has been spending tens of billions of dollars — much of it from the Islamic Republic of Iran — on a vast network of underground tunnels. It is in those tunnels they have stored, well-hidden, thousands of ballistic missiles and other weaponry. But now an IDF unit has managed in just five weeks to locate and to blow up at least 1,000 terror infrastructure sites belonging to Hezbollah in Lebanon. More on that spectacular operation can be found here: “IDF combat engineers blowing up ‘endless’ amount of Hezbollah terror infrastructure – interview,” by Yonah Jeremy Bob, Jerusalem Post, April 15, 2026:
The combat engineering battalion 603 is blowing up “endless” amounts of Hezbollah’s terror infrastructure in southern Lebanon, Lt. Col. “R,” the battalion commander, told The Jerusalem Post in a recent interview.
R said that his unit has found and destroyed over 1,000 terror infrastructure sites during almost five weeks of service in southern Lebanon.
Originally from Ramat Gan, R is 37 and married with two children. He has served in the IDF for 19 years, including as the combat engineering officer for Division 162 and for the special forces Yahalom unit.
R has been in his current role for around 10 months and expects to continue for another one to two years before moving to any new roles.
The 603rd Combat Engineering Battalion is part of the 7th Brigade and finished a period of combat in central Gaza around six weeks ago.
This followed three months of combat in the Rafah area of Gaza, near the Yellow Line, during which R’s brigade killed 24 Hamas terrorists in a combination of close-up fighting and tank attacks.
His fighters were in a period of refreshing their skills and their training at their home base north of Eilat. One week later, this training was interrupted by a call to mobilize to the border with Lebanon….
R estimated that possibly between 25 percent and 50% of the weapons, along with Hezbollah’s network in the area, have now been cleared.
But to fully clear these threats, he said, the IDF would need at a minimum a period of additional months.
Addressing the problem was a dilemma of legitimacy, R explained. If Israel achieves more global legitimacy, then, if the IDF gives him the time, his and other military units have a plan for continuing to work to clear these items over a period of months.
So far, it looks as if R and his fellows in the 603d battalion will be given the time — some months — to complete their task of clearing the remaining terror sites. Right now, the world is focused on the war in Iran, on the Strait of Hormuz and the price of oil. There is no longer a focus on Hezbollah, and there may be none for some months, while the Israelis can drag out the ceasefire talks just underway in Washington, to allow them to keep exploding terror sites. Given Hezbollah’s maximalist position in the talks so far, they may well go on for months, allowing the 603rd Combat Engineering Battalion to finish its mission.
In just five weeks, R’s 603rd Combat Engineering Unit destroyed 1,000 terror units that had taken Hezbollah many years to build, at a cost of several billion dollars supplied by Iran. The hardest to locate and destroy were the tunnels build deep underground, where weapons were stored. And if Hezbollah continues to hold out and refuses to agree to disarm at the negotiations currently being conducted with Israel in Washington, that will give R and his men, his “great and brave soldiers,” the time they need, having already destroyed half of Hezbollah’s terror infrastructure, to destroy the other half.
To which, by way of a Shakespearean coda, we can add: “Well said, old mole! Canst work i’ the earth so fast?”
Billy says
Muslims use every strategy of war against Non-Muslims including deceit, discrimination, segregation, violence, and terrorism to gain ultimate power and control as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 3:54; 7:99; 9:5, 29, 111; 49:15; 98:6-7, etc.). Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…”
Allah rewards Muslims with Paradise when they kill and are killed in Jihad, war against Non-Muslims with MUSLIM MONEY and with MUSLIM LIVES to make Islam supreme. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 teaches, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.” Allah commands Muslims to fight Non-Muslims to establish Islamic Law, Sharia, so that Islam reigns supreme.
Walter Sieruk says
Hezbollah should be dealt with defeated and even destroyed by hitting it hard, hit it long and keep on hitting it with strong powerful forceful military strikes until it’s unable to raise up again with its ugly, vicious and deadly jihad Islamic head.
Therefore, the government authorities and officials of the State of Israel have a duty and responsibility to use sarong military force against Hezbollah to ensure the safety security and lives of the people who are citizens of that nation. It’s basic matter of self-defense.
As the fifth President of the United States, James Monroe, rightly and wisely, in a speech had declared, “The right to self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.”
Walter Sieruk says
The Israel Defense Force is pounding down hard on Hezbollah is doing the necessary practical logical thing to do. What’s more, the IDF needs to keep on attacking Hezbollah with stronger and stronger military power and might.
This needs to be done because the jihadists who make up Hezbollah will not and cannot respond to either reason or logic. Therefore the only language that the Muslim terrorists will and able to understand to the language of the powerful might of the Israeli military.
As Thomas Jefferson has, so rightly and wisely, declared, “With every barbarous people….force is law.”
Taffy says
“Much of the infrastructure” destroyed means that there is much left. The problem is that these missiles are distributed in many places rather than concentrated in a few spots where they can easily be destroyed. Israel has a hard job ahead to ferret out Hizb’allah’s remaining stashes. In the meantime, northern Israel gets peppered by missile barrages. Within the next month, you will see the IDF taking over everything south of the Latani River and then heading northward to finally rid itself of any Hizb’Allah threat. The same will be true of Gaza. I hope that Turkey will have the restraint to not enter into war with Israel.
Walter Sieruk says
The use of the armed might is the way to defeat the murderous jihadists of Hezbollah. This is because the Muslim terrorists of Hezbollah will not reason to reason or logic. The only language that they are able to understand is the language of the strong of might of the power of the Israel Defense Force.
In addition, there is much good solid valid sense in the wisdom of the statement apply to the Israel Defense Force pounding down with much military might of Hezbollah. The statement is “Half-measures in war is both folly and madness.”
Jekabzeel says
A vast network of underground tunnels as in Gaza.